The epigraph of Ruth Ozeki’s first book of stories is Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”: the entire poem, as if a line or a stanza about loss isn’t enough, but the reader needs every shift, denial, and detail to understand “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” Ozeki, novelist, Zen priest, former documentary filmmaker who learned how to put a story together by making these films, has a generous, amusing, piercing sense of how people suffer, lose, get lost, and learn to look after each other. Without being explicitly didactic, these feel like teaching stories that could change the ways a person lives in the world or imagines other people.